Stanza

Author: Jill Esbaum
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152059989
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Stanza the dog and his two rotten brothers terrorize the streets by day, but at night Stanza secretly writes poetry.

Stanzas

Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816620388
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
"Stanzas" (which means "rooms" in Italian) is a blend of philology, the psychoanalysis of toys, medieval physics and psychology, and contemporary linguistics and philosophy. In this work, Giorgio Agamben attempts to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of Western culture. He rereads Freud and Saussure to discover the impossibility of metalanguage - there is no "superior language" that can read the obscure scenes of the unconscious, and the "symbol" is always the return of the repressed in an improper signifier. This impossibility leads Agamben to the problem of representation. He argues that since language is the locus of the production and storage of phantasms, all real objects are fractured by phantasmic itineraries that in turn divide poetry and philosophy, joy and knowledge. This division is at the origin of Western culture and renders impossible the possession of any object of knowledge. Giorgio Agamben is the author of "Language and Death" (University of Minnesota Press 1991).

Stanzas in Meditation by Gertrude Stein - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Author: Gertrude Stein
Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 1788778979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349

Book Description
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Stanzas in Meditation by Gertrude Stein - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Gertrude Stein’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Stein includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Stanzas in Meditation by Gertrude Stein - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Stein’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Stanzas in Meditation

Author: Gertrude Stein
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300157339
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
In the 1950s, Yale University Press published a number of Gertrude Stein's posthumous works, among them her incomparable "Stanzas in Meditation." Since that time, scholars have discovered that Stein's poem exists in several versions: a manuscript that Stein wrote and two typescripts that her partner Alice B. Toklas prepared. Toklas's work on the second typescript changed the poem when, enraged upon detecting in it references to a former lover, she not only adjusted the typescript but insisted that Stein make revisions in the original manuscript.This edition of "Stanzas in Meditation" is the first to confront the complicated story of its composition and revision. Through meticulous archival work, the editors present a reliable reading text of Stein's original manuscript, as well as an appendix with the textual variants among the poem's several versions. This record of Stein's multi-layered revisions enables readers to engage more fully with the author's radically experimental poem and also to detect the literary impact of Stein's relationship with Toklas. The editors' preface and poet Joan Retallack's introduction offer insight into the complexities of reading Stein's poetry and the innovative modes of reading that her works require and generate. Students and admirers of Stein will welcome this illuminating new contribution to Stein's oeuvre.

The Stanza

Author: Ernst Häublein
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315310074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
First published in 1978, this work bridges the gap between the study of poetic form, which tends to isolate form from meaning and structural poetics, which tends to focus on meaning without considering the stanza’s impact. Beginning with an examination of the various definitions of the stanza, the book goes on to describe the many forms of the stanza and the different strategies by which poets achieve stanzaic units of meaning. It then evaluates the logical relationships between stanzas, and, finally, assesses their place and function as parts within the poetic whole. This work will be of interest to those studying poetry and literature.

A Linguistic History of English Poetry

Author: Richard Bradford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134911726
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from the Renaissance to Postmodernism, and considers individual texts as paradigms which can both reflect and unsettle their broader linguistic and cultural contexts. Richard Bradford provides detailed readings of individual texts which emphasize their relation to literary history and broader socio-cultural contexts, and which take into account developments in structuralism and postmodernism. Texts include poems by Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Hopkins, Browning, Pound, Eliot, Carlos Williams, Auden, Larkin and Geoffrey Hill.

The Stanzas on Vibration

Author:
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438401752
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
In his Doctrine of Vibration, the author presents a synthesis of Kashmir Shaivism—an overview with Spanda as the central theme. Spanda is the vibratory dynamism of the absolute consciousness. In this book the author focuses on the school of Kashmir Shaivism that presents this doctrine as its cardinal principle and whose literature consists essentially of the works translated here. In his Introduction and in his exposition of the four commentaries, the author shows both how the Spanda tradition contributes to the other schools of Kashmir Shaivism and how it is different from them. He presents for the first time a detailed treatment of this tradition and an analysis of its development. The aim is to offer a method that affords access by the general reader to the wonderful world of the Spanda Yogi through which she travels to the liberating realization of her authentic identity vibrant with the vitality of the universal pulse of Shiva.

Scottish Alliterative Poems in Riming Stanzas

Author: François J. Amours
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description

A History of Classical Poetry

Author: Siegfried Lienhard
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447024259
Category : Indic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description

Time and the Crystal

Author: Robert M. Durling
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520415426
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description
The Rime petrose, Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this full-length investigation of the poetics of the petrose and of their relation to TheDivine Comedy, Robert M. Durling and Ronald L. Martinez uncover new material, especially from medieval science (astrology and mineralogy), philosophy, and theology. The authors argue that the Rime petrose represent a major turning point in Dante's conception of a "microcosmic poetics" that became the fundamental mode of the Commedia. They demonstrate how Dante here attempts his first full account of his relation to the universe as a whole. This work offers many insights into the intrinsic significance of these remarkable poems and their place in Dante's development. Especially far-reaching are the implications for the interpretation of TheDivine Comedy.Time and the Crystal will interest not only students of Dante but also intellectual historians, historians of science, students of poetics and poetic theory, and all those interested in medieval literature. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand